Bhopal: Chief Secretary Basant Pratap Singh expressed his annoyance on Thursday to the 14 collectors which have been found to be lagging behind in eradication of open defecation from their districts, under the Swachh Bharat Mission of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

During a Parakh video conferencing session with the collectors Singh said that the matter of making their districts open defecation free (ODF) is not limited only to them rather he too have to answer about it to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).

CS said told them to make their districts ODF by September at any cost. CS warned the collectors to take this Parakh discussion seriously. During the Parakh video conferencing session Singh told the collectors of eight backward districts of the state that their districts are being monitored by the top level. He asked them to work seriously so that these districts could come out from their backwardness.